There are plenty of people who spend way too much time thinking of witty things to call their Wi-Fi networks at home. You've all seen the jokes, the lists, the reaction images, etc. We won't waste your time going through our favorites.

While messing with one's Wi-Fi network name is always a manual adjustment, a Russian artist is looking to add a little class, sophistication, and automation to the process. And, in doing so, he's probably ensuring that you're going to annoy everyone around you if you deploy one of his new Hotspot Poets in your home or apartment.

The Hotspot Poet, created by Dmitry Morozov, is a tiny little box that blasts a Wi-Fi hotspot when you turn it on. No one can connect to the hotspot—even if they could, the hotspot isn't an access point, a router, or anything like that. The device's sole purpose is to blast out a clever SSID, which changes every 10 seconds to another line from a famous poem. That's it.

"Radius of action of the module is a few dozens meters. The names of networks are shown in a bit different ways on different gadgets: for example, on certain modern android devices, poetic lines are visible only as one network, which is continuously and quickly refreshed; on ios devices there appears a new one, while a few previous ones are still visible, but gradually the new ones replace the old ones; and on mac computers, all names are appearing line after line, and they stay there until the arrow is removed from the network selection menu," he writes.

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Might I recommend the uber-popular Broadway show Hamilton, which has 20,520 words?

It's an intriguing idea from an artistic standpoint, though we might like it more if it could plug into the wall and just blast its message forevermore. Right now, the device appears to run on a phone battery. We don't know how long it can keep transmitting its SSIDs before the battery goes out, but we suspect it can go for a decent amount of time given that it's basically just a small microtransmitter in a colorful box. Here's hoping your neighbors don't mind—or buy a few boxes of their own.

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